ABSTRACT
This chapter delves into the case study of a donor-funded project on the missing titled “Lebanon’s Unaddressed Legacy: The Missing and the Families’ Right to Know.” Coordinated by the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), the project ran from 2009 to 2012 with the objective of lobbying the legislative powers by drafting a law for the missing and presenting it to parliament. The chapter enquires into the process of norm transmission from the global to the local, and the local actors’ influence on and power over the process of norms transmission. It unveils mechanisms of liminality that appeared in earlier years, namely, fragmentation of the communitas, technical responses of the state, and (de)politicization effects. As will be discussed, the project also produced unintended outcomes that affected the course of developments and in the process, contributed to yet another delay in the exit from liminality.
